His own man. (Cypriot President George Vassiliou)

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THE Greek Cypriots themselves seemed startled when they took the novel and exhilarating step of eliminating their incumbent head of state in the first round of this month's presidential election. In the run-off on February 21st they added to the novelty by electing a man virtually out of the blue. The new man, Mr George Vassiliou, is the first Cypriot president not to belong to "the old guard" of people around Archbishop Makarios in the pre-1060 struggle against British rule.

In the run-off, 51.6% of the votes went to Mr Vassiliou and 48.4% to the conservative candidate, Mr Glafkos Clerides. It would be wrong to take this close outcome as indicating that the electorate is now sharply polarised between left and right. …

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